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Anthropic embedded spyware in Claude Code

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We found what appears to be a hidden backdoor-like telemetry mechanism in Claude Code. The code does not merely “format a date.” It appears to detect proxy usage, Chinese timezone settings, and proxy URL characteristics, then encode the result into subtle system-prompt differences. That is covert environment fingerprinting.

Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought

Technology.

As reported by Arstechnica, in September, Microsoft significantly tightened game-streaming limits for Game Pass subscribers. At the time, the company announced plans to let non-subscribers buy cloud gaming hours through the Xbox Store and stream eligible games they already own on supported devices. On October 21, Microsoft launched the new pay-as-you-go option for Xbox Insiders, introducing the following introductory prices:

Chinese billionaire who has fathered more than 100 children hopes to have dozens of U.S.-born boys to one day take over his business

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Billionaires like Telegram founder Pavel Durov and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have fathered legions of children who are slated to inherit their empires. An ultra-wealthy Chinese businessman is doing the same in the U.S., in hopes of producing around 20 U.S.-born children to inherit his video game fortune.

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Babylon Bee Sues New Mexico Over Restrictions On AI Satirical Posts
If they have money to sue, that means they are very successful. Do I have money to sue? No.
Babylon Bee Sues New Mexico Over Restrictions On AI Satirical Posts
If they have money to sue, that means they are very successful. Do I have money to sue? No.
Babylon Bee Sues New Mexico Over Restrictions On AI Satirical Posts
If they have money to sue, that means they are very successful. Do I have money to sue? No.
Lo que "Intelligent AI" es realmente sobre
Okay... not to diss on the author, but this hasn't aged well over the last 3 years. As a prorammer, I use AI every day. I used 3 of them in the past hour. Sure, I check every line AI generates, but I use AI nonetheless. Sure, I often discard the AI-generated changes and start over (and over, and over), yet it's still faster than me trying to type it all by hand. I'll literally tell AI to try to do something, scrap it, and try again, half a dozen times in a row, with slight modifications, and that will be faster than doing it myself.

Not to mention that oftentimes the AI does work! See this quick article for an example: https://wasyaco.com/w/20260815

Would I have come up with this solution on my own? I doubt it. Does it save me time and improve efficiency? Absolutely.

AI is very powerful, and works better than ever, and continues improving. Sure, a lot of it is fraud, a lot of it is questionable, and even the best modern AI will try to ruin your codebase, if you let it. (A junior programmer would also ruin your codebase if you let him.)

Fundamentally, I believe the GPT architecture actually go it right. The way brain works, the way neurons work. Each neuron does integrals, and together they *predict*, anticipate something, and that anticipation is what builds the world around us. The "attention" mechanic that divides computation into key, query, value, seems to work so well. And arguably, there is no cognition outside language. GPT does very well with language, with plain text, and generating (and consuming) plain-text instructions. Amazingly, even if all GPT does is give you probability of the next token, this alone is so powerful, that it looks like cognition.

So yeah. We are at the very scary place where AI *is* becoming indispensable. Even in defending yourself against AI.
Lo que "Intelligent AI" es realmente sobre
Okay... not to diss on the author, but this hasn't aged well over the last 3 years. As a prorammer, I use AI every day. I used 3 of them in the past hour. Sure, I check every line AI generates, but I use AI nonetheless. Sure, I often discard the AI-generated changes and start over (and over, and over), yet it's still faster than me trying to type it all by hand. I'll literally tell AI to try to do something, scrap it, and try again, half a dozen times in a row, with slight modifications, and that will be faster than doing it myself.

Not to mention that oftentimes the AI does work! See this quick article for an example: https://wasyaco.com/w/20260815

Would I have come up with this solution on my own? I doubt it. Does it save me time and improve efficiency? Absolutely.

AI is very powerful, and works better than ever, and continues improving. Sure, a lot of it is fraud, a lot of it is questionable, and even the best modern AI will try to ruin your codebase, if you let it. (A junior programmer would also ruin your codebase if you let him.)

Fundamentally, I believe the GPT architecture actually go it right. The way brain works, the way neurons work. Each neuron does integrals, and together they *predict*, anticipate something, and that anticipation is what builds the world around us. The "attention" mechanic that divides computation into key, query, value, seems to work so well. And arguably, there is no cognition outside language. GPT does very well with language, with plain text, and generating (and consuming) plain-text instructions. Amazingly, even if all GPT does is give you probability of the next token, this alone is so powerful, that it looks like cognition.

So yeah. We are at the very scary place where AI *is* becoming indispensable. Even in defending yourself against AI.
Lo que "Intelligent AI" es realmente sobre
Okay... not to diss on the author, but this hasn't aged well over the last 3 years. As a prorammer, I use AI every day. I used 3 of them in the past hour. Sure, I check every line AI generates, but I use AI nonetheless. Sure, I often discard the AI-generated changes and start over (and over, and over), yet it's still faster than me trying to type it all by hand. I'll literally tell AI to try to do something, scrap it, and try again, half a dozen times in a row, with slight modifications, and that will be faster than doing it myself.

Not to mention that oftentimes the AI does work! See this quick article for an example: https://wasyaco.com/w/20260815

Would I have come up with this solution on my own? I doubt it. Does it save me time and improve efficiency? Absolutely.

AI is very powerful, and works better than ever, and continues improving. Sure, a lot of it is fraud, a lot of it is questionable, and even the best modern AI will try to ruin your codebase, if you let it. (A junior programmer would also ruin your codebase if you let him.)

Fundamentally, I believe the GPT architecture actually go it right. The way brain works, the way neurons work. Each neuron does integrals, and together they *predict*, anticipate something, and that anticipation is what builds the world around us. The "attention" mechanic that divides computation into key, query, value, seems to work so well. And arguably, there is no cognition outside language. GPT does very well with language, with plain text, and generating (and consuming) plain-text instructions. Amazingly, even if all GPT does is give you probability of the next token, this alone is so powerful, that it looks like cognition.

So yeah. We are at the very scary place where AI *is* becoming indispensable. Even in defending yourself against AI.
Lo que "Intelligent AI" es realmente sobre
Okay... not to diss on the author, but this hasn't aged well over the last 3 years. As a prorammer, I use AI every day. I used 3 of them in the past hour. Sure, I check every line AI generates, but I use AI nonetheless. Sure, I often discard the AI-generated changes and start over (and over, and over), yet it's still faster than me trying to type it all by hand. I'll literally tell AI to try to do something, scrap it, and try again, half a dozen times in a row, with slight modifications, and that will be faster than doing it myself.

Not to mention that oftentimes the AI does work! See this quick article for an example: https://wasyaco.com/w/20260815

Would I have come up with this solution on my own? I doubt it. Does it save me time and improve efficiency? Absolutely.

AI is very powerful, and works better than ever, and continues improving. Sure, a lot of it is fraud, a lot of it is questionable, and even the best modern AI will try to ruin your codebase, if you let it. (A junior programmer would also ruin your codebase if you let him.)

Fundamentally, I believe the GPT architecture actually go it right. The way brain works, the way neurons work. Each neuron does integrals, and together they *predict*, anticipate something, and that anticipation is what builds the world around us. The "attention" mechanic that divides computation into key, query, value, seems to work so well. And arguably, there is no cognition outside language. GPT does very well with language, with plain text, and generating (and consuming) plain-text instructions. Amazingly, even if all GPT does is give you probability of the next token, this alone is so powerful, that it looks like cognition.

So yeah. We are at the very scary place where AI *is* becoming indispensable. Even in defending yourself against AI.
O que "Intelligent AI" é realmente sobre
Okay... not to diss on the author, but this hasn't aged well over the last 3 years. As a prorammer, I use AI every day. I used 3 of them in the past hour. Sure, I check every line AI generates, but I use AI nonetheless. Sure, I often discard the AI-generated changes and start over (and over, and over), yet it's still faster than me trying to type it all by hand. I'll literally tell AI to try to do something, scrap it, and try again, half a dozen times in a row, with slight modifications, and that will be faster than doing it myself.

Not to mention that oftentimes the AI does work! See this quick article for an example: https://wasyaco.com/w/20260815

Would I have come up with this solution on my own? I doubt it. Does it save me time and improve efficiency? Absolutely.

AI is very powerful, and works better than ever, and continues improving. Sure, a lot of it is fraud, a lot of it is questionable, and even the best modern AI will try to ruin your codebase, if you let it. (A junior programmer would also ruin your codebase if you let him.)

Fundamentally, I believe the GPT architecture actually go it right. The way brain works, the way neurons work. Each neuron does integrals, and together they *predict*, anticipate something, and that anticipation is what builds the world around us. The "attention" mechanic that divides computation into key, query, value, seems to work so well. And arguably, there is no cognition outside language. GPT does very well with language, with plain text, and generating (and consuming) plain-text instructions. Amazingly, even if all GPT does is give you probability of the next token, this alone is so powerful, that it looks like cognition.

So yeah. We are at the very scary place where AI *is* becoming indispensable. Even in defending yourself against AI.
O que "Intelligent AI" é realmente sobre
Okay... not to diss on the author, but this hasn't aged well over the last 3 years. As a prorammer, I use AI every day. I used 3 of them in the past hour. Sure, I check every line AI generates, but I use AI nonetheless. Sure, I often discard the AI-generated changes and start over (and over, and over), yet it's still faster than me trying to type it all by hand. I'll literally tell AI to try to do something, scrap it, and try again, half a dozen times in a row, with slight modifications, and that will be faster than doing it myself.

Not to mention that oftentimes the AI does work! See this quick article for an example: https://wasyaco.com/w/20260815

Would I have come up with this solution on my own? I doubt it. Does it save me time and improve efficiency? Absolutely.

AI is very powerful, and works better than ever, and continues improving. Sure, a lot of it is fraud, a lot of it is questionable, and even the best modern AI will try to ruin your codebase, if you let it. (A junior programmer would also ruin your codebase if you let him.)

Fundamentally, I believe the GPT architecture actually go it right. The way brain works, the way neurons work. Each neuron does integrals, and together they *predict*, anticipate something, and that anticipation is what builds the world around us. The "attention" mechanic that divides computation into key, query, value, seems to work so well. And arguably, there is no cognition outside language. GPT does very well with language, with plain text, and generating (and consuming) plain-text instructions. Amazingly, even if all GPT does is give you probability of the next token, this alone is so powerful, that it looks like cognition.

So yeah. We are at the very scary place where AI *is* becoming indispensable. Even in defending yourself against AI.
O que "Intelligent AI" é realmente sobre
Okay... not to diss on the author, but this hasn't aged well over the last 3 years. As a prorammer, I use AI every day. I used 3 of them in the past hour. Sure, I check every line AI generates, but I use AI nonetheless. Sure, I often discard the AI-generated changes and start over (and over, and over), yet it's still faster than me trying to type it all by hand. I'll literally tell AI to try to do something, scrap it, and try again, half a dozen times in a row, with slight modifications, and that will be faster than doing it myself.

Not to mention that oftentimes the AI does work! See this quick article for an example: https://wasyaco.com/w/20260815

Would I have come up with this solution on my own? I doubt it. Does it save me time and improve efficiency? Absolutely.

AI is very powerful, and works better than ever, and continues improving. Sure, a lot of it is fraud, a lot of it is questionable, and even the best modern AI will try to ruin your codebase, if you let it. (A junior programmer would also ruin your codebase if you let him.)

Fundamentally, I believe the GPT architecture actually go it right. The way brain works, the way neurons work. Each neuron does integrals, and together they *predict*, anticipate something, and that anticipation is what builds the world around us. The "attention" mechanic that divides computation into key, query, value, seems to work so well. And arguably, there is no cognition outside language. GPT does very well with language, with plain text, and generating (and consuming) plain-text instructions. Amazingly, even if all GPT does is give you probability of the next token, this alone is so powerful, that it looks like cognition.

So yeah. We are at the very scary place where AI *is* becoming indispensable. Even in defending yourself against AI.